Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield, Mass.

Title

Stereograph, circa 1870s

Description

"This stereograph was taken from 'the hill south of Prospect Street and east of Fairmount Avenue, looking east.' It appears to have been taken before the building of several icehouse on the shores of Lake Quannapowitt, specifically the icehouse owned by Boston hotel owner J. Reed Whipple and John G. Morrill on the Col. James Hartshorne's meadow in the 1890s. Note the style of house along the lakeshore, as well as the third meetinghouse of the First Parish Congregational Church which was razed in 1890."

Image from the Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department annual calendar, 2015

Photo courtesy of JC Marketing Associates

Contributor

Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library

Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (Wakefield, Mass.)

D'Onofrio, Jayne M.

Coverage

Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield

Date

1870-1879

Format

image/jpeg

Publisher

Wakefield, Mass. : Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department

Type

still image

Photographs

Original Format

1 picture: b & w

Extent

31 x 16 cm.